Siena – Ricardopedia

Italy 2018 Finished!

Last Friday I published a post on my family’s departure from Italy at the end of our trip last year, and today I thought I’d…

Yesterday I finally published the last entry in my series of travelogue posts that chronicled my trip to Italy last year with my parents. For…

We had a little bit of time before leaving Siena so we did one last walk around the historic core of the city. The rain…

The next morning we packed our bags and then went out for breakfast at a nearby pastry shop called Nannini. I don’t remember what the…

For dinner that night we were having a little trouble deciding where to go. If the weather had been better we might have splurged on…

As part of your entry into the Siena Cathedral Museum you can step out onto the unfinished new front facade of the church, called the…

We stepped out of the cathedral to find the rain was still coming down, but we didn’t have to go far to reach our next…

Connected to the main part of the Siena Cathedral is the Piccolomini Library. This room has choir books lining the walls at eye-level and higher…

When you step inside the Siena Cathedral one of the first things that will probably catch your eye are the mosaics on the floors. These…

The Siena Cathedral is conveniently only about 500 feet (152 meters) from Il Campo and although the cathedral is at the top of the hill…